About Me

Change. I've learned to embrace it, ride it out til the end. Sometimes I'm kicking and screaming, other times weeping with my eyes clinched tight. Once in awhile I ride like a dog in a car, head out the window snorting what life has to offer. Mother to young adult children, a marriage of thirty years, and a desert to mountain to valley waltz with God have shaped me into someone I never imagined I'd be. Life is short and I want to live it. Tears, sighs, laughter and change. Every morsel granted to me. Scrambled, shaken or stirred.

Thursday, June 20, 2013

A Lifesaving Storm Shelter. The flood plain is too high to allow for basements.

Destruction.

Rob and the copperhead.

One thing I didn't know about tornadoes even though I live in tornado country. Apparently, cars are extremely dangerous. If a tornado sucks up a car and it remains in there long enough it becomes crushed into a large rolling ball and can shoot out create secondary damage to homes, structures and even people. Our crew found a copperhead snake which unsettled the whole group. On a good note, they found some lost treasures and heard stories that reinforced their faith. And they were able to bring blessings to so many people and were blessed in turn. One family told them about a litter of kittens born the night after the tornado. The little girl carefully named them. One was named tornado. Another stormy. A third one was named destruction. And number four, she named hope.

Faith, in spite of it all.

The team we sent went through an organization, Service International and had a good experience. The organization was efficient and organized and the people they worked with were a blessing as well. Service International provides equipment and work with local churches.